Ashraf Ejjbair

When Sheena and Javed meet the mutual attraction is palpable. But can Sheena escape the past that brings them together?

The Directors is a collaboration between artist Marcus Coates and five individuals in recovery from different lived experiences of psychosis. Positioned behind the camera, each of them directs Coates in a filmed re-staging of a particular episode from their life.

Anamika, the child of a mixed marriage, returns home to her estranged mother Sadhana because she is suffering from the onset of dementia. Ana returns to a neighborhood she barely remembers, to a woman who sometimes doesn’t remember her.

An exercise in the relation between haute cuisine and erotica